Nigeria's lead agency for investigating financial crimes, created as a body corporate by section 1 of its 2004 establishment Act. The Act also designates it as the country's financial intelligence unit.
What they do
Investigates financial crimes including advance fee fraud and money laundering, traces, freezes and seizes criminal proceeds, and coordinates the enforcement of economic and financial crime laws (ss. 6-7). The Special Control Unit against Money Laundering sits within it.
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